They have formed their own 4-H club - the hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history.

There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo.

We are all worms, but I do believe that I am a glow-worm.

Humility is attentive patience.

The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances.

I don't try to imagine a personal god; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.

Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

All battles are fought by scared men who'd rather be some place else.

The true test of a man's character is what he does when no one is watching.

I'm not afraid of dying I just don't want to be there when it happens.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

If the world was perfect, it wouldn't be.

Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.

Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.

A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.

The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea.

There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.

I meant what I said and I said what I meant.

It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.